Hour photo / Erik Trautmann Liquor Stores N.A. Ltd, based in Canada, released a statement on their website Thursday stating they plan to open a 20,000-square-foot store at the former Barnes and Noble site at 360 Connecticut Ave.

Hour photo / Erik Trautmann Liquor Stores N.A. Ltd, based in Canada, released a statement on their website Thursday stating they plan to open a 20,000-square-foot store at the former Barnes and Noble site at

Hour photo / Erik Trautmann Liquor Stores N.A. Ltd, based in Canada, released a statement on their website Thursday stating they plan to open a 20,000-square-foot store at the former Barnes & Noble site at 360 Connecticut Ave.

Hour photo / Erik Trautmann Liquor Stores N.A. Ltd, based in Canada, released a statement on their website Thursday stating they plan to open a 20,000-square-foot store at the former Barnes & Noble site at

NORWALK — Cheers! The city seems poised to welcome its second massive liquor store — this one at the former location of Barnes and Noble on Connecticut Avenue.

Liquor Stores N.A. Ltd, based in Canada, released a statement on their website Thursday stating they plan to open a 20,000-square-foot store “anchored by two large volume grocery stores (Stop & Shop Supermarket and ShopRite) with our location situated in close proximity to a major east coast interstate highway. “

David Gordey, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Liquor Stores, confirmed to The Hour on Thursday the location to be the former Barnes and Noble site at 360 Connecticut Ave.

Gordey said the company has not yet determined what the store will be called.

In the statement the company said it plans to invest $5 million in the development of the Norwalk store and another in Massachusetts.

“Liquor Stores has secured liquor retail licenses for each of the Norwalk and Berlin (Mass.) stores and has recently received license transfer approval by the Connecticut Liquor Control Division and the Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverage Commission,” the statement reads.

Barnes & Noble lease expired on Jan. 31 of this year.

Total Wine & More opened a 30,000-square-foot store on Main Avenue in 2012.